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Spacebar is a free, opensource selfhostable discord-compatible chat, voice and video platform.

  • Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
  • Selfhostable (Server)
  • Open Source (GitHub Organization)
  • Configurable (Configure every aspect and limits to your needs)
  • Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn't have a single point of failure)
  • Extendable (secure and cross-platform plugin system)
  • Themeable (cross-platform theme system with design editor)
  • Secure (publicly audited and hosted FOSS software for transparent foundation in terms of security)
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[–] parpol@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just use Matrix? I thought it was the goto FOSS and decentralized Discord alternative.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix doesn't offer the same experience as discord. I'm sorry but it doesn't. I set up my own to compare to see if my friend group would like it, and it was quite a step backwards. Even in it's best platform element it was missing a lot of stuff from discord.

So, things like this I'd be very interested to watch. Revolt looked the most promising but it didn't offer federation, and I wasn't going to make everyone have a separate accountjust for our server

So this will be interesting. I will need at least voice to get them to come over, but I'll watch this project closely

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voice & screensharing seems to be the thing holding all of my friends chained to discord

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Mumbleb plus moonlight, boom done

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why pick this over ArmCord?

[–] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Armcord is a discord client. Spacebar is a discord alternative (server+client)

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

Currently there is no voice or video support in any Spacebar instance. This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility. We would be incredibly thankful for any assistance.

Damn.

[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I'd love to move my gang off discord but getting them to go back to team speak or vent is not happening

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

[–] Saff@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, if only teamspeak supported screen sharing / streaming, then it would be fine.

[–] gccalvin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

My group is on Teamspeak. They are supposedly adding it this year, but it's been radio silence for months.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Discuss without voice, might aswell use IRC

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 1 points 1 year ago

Mumble is so underrated. It does one job and but does it very well.